INNOVATIVE TEACHING SHOWCASE

This year's Showcase theme, Faculty Learning Communities, honors members who are working together to share and expand their scholarship.

FACULTY GUR GROUP, led by Johann Neem and Pete Stelling, brings together six faculty members from different departments across the university in a faculty learning community that sought to enhance each participant's general education. Each participant both presented a lesson from his/her own GUR course and attended the lessons taught by the other faculty members during the academic year.

MULTICULTURAL FACULTY FELLOWS, led by Kristen French, is designed to support faculty in their commitment to transformative education that will prepare their students to enter the workplaces of tomorrow. Fellows meet to grapple with the sociopolitical context of multiculturalism through reading, professional study, self reflection and dialogue.

TEACHER EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP, led by George Nelson & Carolyn Landel, is a NSF grant funded project involving 28 school districts, 2 education service districts, 4 community colleges, and WWU. The project was created to reform science education in public schools through teacher professional development, implementation of new curriculum materials, & development of learning communities in the schools.

A faculty learning community (FLC) is a group of trans-disciplinary faculty, graduate students and professional staff...engaging in an active, collaborative, yearlong program with a curriculum about enhancing teaching and learning and with frequent seminars and activities that provide learning, development, transdisciplinarity, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and community building.